When you know and respect your own inner nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.
They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
Some people think nature is their God. I'd like to apologize to all those people for pissing on their religion.
The sound of natural things was wonderful to us. In the middle of all the suffering, it seemed pure, untouched.
There should be a language called Nail, so I could more naturally say, “My nail is a bit rusty.
For him, the kampung was a place to live and work that was based on a steadfast and intimate relationship between man and nature. The village was a true reflection of life in the tropics.
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
There are certain natures of which the mutual influence is such, that the more they say, the more they have to say. For these out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion, amalgamation.
There can never be any real freedom on earth as long as people try to exert ownership over the natural resources of the world.
To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow, was equivalent to being a fool, wasn't it?
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed.
It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search into causes is inherent in man's very nature.
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
Nature reflects the moods of the wizard.
I picked up a hitchhiker. Later on I picked up some common sense and soda. The soda was all-natural, like the hooker from earlier.
There are four quarters in a football game. That’s natural, because that’s 100%. I’m a 75% kind of fan, because I’m all about the quarterback.
I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.
To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.